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SwissVPN Review

August 16, 2015

SwissVPN is, of course, located in Switzerland. The company offers a very simple option as far as connection plans go. In addition to their VPN service, you can purchase a firewall for an extra fee. The service is very limited compared to most of our other providers in terms of location options.

Pricing and Plans

SwissVPN offers a one-month plan for $6. You can pay via credit cards or PayPal, with the option to renew. You can add the firewall service for $2 per month.

Free Trial / Money Back Guarantee

There really isn’t a free trial with this provider, but you can test your connection to their servers using openly-provided credentials on their site. You can’t surf with that connection, but you can see whether or not you can hit their servers.

Privacy & Anonymity

SwissVPN logs your connection time and your transfer amount. Because they’re located in Switzerland, however, the privacy policies are good. Switzerland does not currently allow public IP addresses to be recorded.

Torrent Policy

Customer Support

Product Testing

SwissVPN doesn’t offer a client. You can use Viscosity or the OpenVPN GUI to connect over the OpenVPN protocol. You can also configure PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and SSTP connections manually.

Windows, Mac OSX, Android, IPhone, etc.

There are no clients offered, but you can configure any mobile device manually for the supported protocols.

Speed Test

SwissVPN Baseline Speedtest

SwissVPN Speedtest

SwissVPN only has one server, so it seems a bit unfair to put them up against other providers in terms of speed, since connecting to them meant connecting to an overseas location. Not surprisingly, the speed was atrocious.

Starting out with a connection that was humming along at over 46Mbps, we were reduced to less than 2Mbps when connected to the SwissVPN server. Again, this is a very limited network, so SwissVPN is not really in the same league as our preferred providers, which tend to have servers located in nations all over the world.

Feature Summary

Countries Supported

We Liked

Areas for Improvement

This VPN service was excruciatingly slow. The setup is completely manual, unless you use Viscosity, which means that it’s not likely to be a good choice for less experienced users.

Conclusion

If you want to torrent or, in fact, just surf at a reasonable speed, SwissVPN is not a good choice. The network was far too slow to accommodate either usage. For privacy, however, they could be a good choice, given their location. In other regards, however, this service really isn’t competitive with the other providers out there. If you want a very basic, cheap VPN, they might be for you. Otherwise, look elsewhere.